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> fundamentally though, there is no reason a computer cannot think. This is true, but I think there is also a fundamental reason computers cannot understand us
by AlexandrB 4y ago
> fundamentally though, there is no reason a computer cannot think.
This is true, but I think there is also a fundamental reason computers cannot understand us. If I tell a future AGI "I am sick" or "I am happy", the AGI may have a conceptual understanding of what I mean, but cannot empathize with my condition. Many human experiences are intimately tied to our bodies and our hormonal systems. How do you explain a concept like "pain" to an intelligence that has no nerves?
- noorkersz 4y agoby using the cost function somehow??
- modzu 4y agoits a great point. but then we needn't constrain this problem to computers, there are plenty of human experiences other humans cannot possibly empathize with (what do you really know about ptsd, autism, even different tastes in food or music). i think there must be ways to build something like understanding through analogy and other modalities, accepting that it is different than shared experience
- pixl97 4y agoBut that is a different question entirely that is typically called the "AI alignment issue". If something understands us and or is aligned with our needs is completely and totally different if it is intelligent/conscious.